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  • El mundo chino

    Translated by Mª Dolors Folch Fornesa ...
    Series series Libros de Historia
    Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único libro existente en el mercado que, en sólo 700 páginas, nos ofrece una síntesis global de la evolución de China en todos los campos y en todas las épocas. El profesor Jacques Gernet dibuja en este libro, paso a paso, las transformaciones sucesivas del mundo chino y la interrelación entre sociedad, formas políticas, economía, técnicas, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage

    Volume 1

    A lucid and landmark translation that offers an intriguing glimpse into Tibetan history, the Mongol Empire, and the spiritual development and remarkable lives of the early luminaries of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.In this first of two volumes of The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage, translators Khenpo Kunga Sherab and Matthew W. King capture a truly remarkable period in Buddhist and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Auf den Spuren der Indoeuropäer

    Von den neolithischen Steppennomaden bis zu den frühen Hochkulturen

    Series Book 6229 - Beck Paperback
    Seit mehr als 3000 Jahren werden von Indien über Persien bis nach Europa indoeuropäische Sprachen gesprochen. Wo liegen die Ursprünge dieser Sprachfamilie? Wie und wann sind die unterschiedlichen Sprachzweige entstanden?Der renommierte Indogermanist Harald Haarmann schildert anschaulich, was wir heute über die Entstehung der indoeuropäischen Sprachen und Kulturen und ihre frühen Verbreitungswege ... Read more

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  • Kleine Geschichte Koreas

    Series Book 1666 - Beck Paperback
    Die koreanische Halbinsel liegt zwischen China und Japan am Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Kulturen und im Visier wechselnder Großmächte. Das Buch beschreibt die Geschichte des Landes von der ersten Besiedlung bis zur gegenwärtigen Teilung. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei der koreanischen Kultur, insbesondere Religion, Philosophie, Literatur und Kunst. Washington, 10. August 1945: Unmittelbar nach ... Read more

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    FROM THE CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCASTIndia was the forgotten heart of the ancient worldFor a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas, an 'Indosphere' where its influence was predominant. During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing recipient of a mass-transfer ... Read more

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  • Mission to Mao

    US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II

    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    An innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyFrom 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the “Dixie Mission,” for its location in “rebel” territory, it was an interagency delegation that included ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Jenseits von Nation und Imperium

    Interaktionen koreanischer Studierender und japanischer Protestanten (1880–1923)

    Series Book 38 - Globalgeschichte
    Welche Rolle spielten Koreaner, die zwischen 1880 und 1923 zum Studium nach Japan kamen, im Austausch mit japanischen Intellektuellen protestantischen Glaubens, insbesondere im Umfeld des YMCA (Christlicher Verein junger Männer) oder der Kaiserlichen Universität Tokyo, im Diskurs zur Kolonial- und Ostasienpolitik Japans? Gestützt auf ein breites Spektrum an japanischen und koreanischen Quellen, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse?The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation (Shortest History)

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Series Book 0 - Shortest History
    The story of a small Asian country with extraordinary aesthetic traditions that avoided colonization and overcame the devastation of World War II to become a highly prosperous modern force, while preserving its unique spirit and cultureZen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Alexander at the End of the World

    The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

    “A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon WooA riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Translocal Island of Okinawa

    Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status under the US-Japan security system beyond the narrowly defined political, cultural and geographical borders of locality. As Okinawa's base politics is a problem deeply rooted in the context of East Asia, so is the history ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Art and Modernism in Socialist China

    Unexplored International Encounters 1949–1979

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This edited volume will be the first book examining the art history of China’s socialist period from the perspective of modernism, modernity, and global interactions.The majority of chapters are based on newly available archival materials and fresh critical frameworks/concepts. By shifting the frame of interpretation from socialist realism to socialist modernity, this study reveals the plurality ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Armies of the Scythians and Sarmatians 700 BC to AD 450

    Weapons, Equipment and Tactics

    The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the seventh century BC which they dominated until replaced and absorbed by the very similar Sarmatians from the third century BC. A harsh life spent riding, herding and hunting on the steppes made them into tough warriors, and highly skilled horsemen and archers ... Read more

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  • Zeit der Finsternis

    Das Britische Empire in Indien

    Series Book 473 - Die Andere Bibliothek
    Die unrühmliche Wahrheit über die britische Herrschaft in Indien – erstmals erzählt aus indischer SichtDas Britische Kolonialreich präsentierte sich nach außen hin als aufgeklärter Despotismus im Namen des Guten und zum Wohle der Beherrschten. Gestützt auf eine Fülle von Fakten demontiert Shashi Tharoor diese weitverbreitete Legende. Das Empire feuerte Kanonen gegen Aufständische ab, massakrierte ... Read more

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  • Eine kurze Geschichte queerer Frauen

    by Kirsty Loehr ...
    Translated by Janine Malz ...
    Eine wilde Achterbahnfahrt durch die Geschichte queerer Frauen.Queere Frauen gibt es schon immer, aber sie wurden seit, nun ja, schon immer aus der Geschichte herausgeschrieben. Historiker gibt es auch schon eine Weile, und die längste Zeit waren sie, nun ja, Männer. Daraus folgt: Männer schrieben die Geschichte auf, die sie für wichtig hielten – und das war meist ihre eigene. Wie Frauen die ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Tokyo Noir

    in and out of Japan's underworld

    A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir.It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised-crime world ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Past Progress

    Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea

    by Ed Pulford ...
    While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history's most ambitiously totalizing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament

    An Anthology

    Edited by Victor H. Mair, Zhenjun Zhang ...
    Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers.Including over 100 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Long Conquest

    Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

    This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism’s quintessential ‘primitive’ in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE.The precolonial political economy of hill cotton produced by the Garos, its unhinging from the exercise of Garo sovereignty and its eventual commodification twined ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The Southern Tour

    Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future

    On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month long trip around China's south in defence of the reforms he had set in motion to open up China's economy and transform the country into the political and economic powerhouse we know today.In this book Jonathan Chatwin pursues the story of Deng's legendary ... Read more

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  • The Luzon Campaign 1945

    MacArthur Returns

    A full account of the Luzon campaign, from the planning stages to the surrender of the Japanese general Yamashita.The Luzon campaign of 1945 was the longest island campaign of the Pacific War, lasting from January 1945 to September 1945, and only ended with the surrender of Imperial Japan. It is often overlooked or mentioned in passing by most histories of that war, yet hundreds of thousands of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective

    China and the West

    Series series War, Conflict and Ethics
    This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace.Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes attention to Japan ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Colonialism and Communalism

    Religion and Changing Identities in Modern India

    Christhu Doss examines how the colonial construct of communalism through the fault lines of the supposed religious neutrality, the hunger for the bread of life, the establishment of exclusive village settlements for the proselytes, the rhetoric of Victorian morality, the booby-traps of modernity, and the subversion of Indian cultural heritage resulted in a radical reorientation of religious ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties

    The Haunted Choices of Economic Development

    by Maureen Sioh ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
    Colonial Trauma and Postcolonial Anxieties argues that economic decisions reflect unconscious anxieties about survival and dignity experienced in a cycle of repeat trauma tracing back to the original trauma of loss in colonialism.Readers will understand how emerging economies evaluate the costs and benefits of key economic policies in the postcolonial era using a psychoanalytical framework.While ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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